Quotes About Evaluation

Is it worth the lion's while to terrify the mouse?

In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judgment of others.

PopadÅ'bym w znany bÅ'Ä…d autobiografów, który polega na tym, ?e albo snujÄ… iluzje, jak to by? powinno, albo kreÅ›lÄ… jakÄ…Å› apologia pro vita sua. A przecie? czÅ'owiek jest zdarzeniem, nie mo?e oceni? samego siebie, lecz raczej - for better or worse - podlega osÄ…dowi innych.

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

That goon didn't know fishing from cathedral architecture!

Collecting information is easy. Reviewing and applying information is hard.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them

The use of network tools can be harmful. If you don't attempt to weigh pros against cons, but instead use any glimpse of some potential benefit as justification for unrestrained use of a tool, then you're unwittingly crippling your ability to succeed in the world of knowledge work. This

At the end of every week he prints his numbers to see how well he achieved this goal, and then uses this feedback to guide himself in the week ahead.

To maximize your chances of success, you should deploy small, concrete experiments that return concrete feedback.

We need to reevaluate [our current relationship with] online information sort of the way we reevaluated free love in the 80s.

If you don't attempt to weigh pros against cons, but instead use any glimpse of some potential benefit as justification for unrestrained use of a tool, then you're unwittingly crippling your ability to succeed in the world of knowledge work.

recommend the habit of a weekly review in which you make a plan for the workweek ahead (see Rule #4). During my experiments with 4DX, I used a weekly review to look over my scoreboard to celebrate good weeks, help understand what led to bad weeks, and most important, figure out how to ensure a good score for the days ahead.

I had reached the level of expertise you would expect from someone who had played an instrument seriously for the last six years. But this is what I find fascinating: Compared to Jordan Tice's ability at this same age, I was mediocre.

I feel like your problem is that you're trying to judge all things in the abstract before you do them. That's your tragic mistake.

But when it comes to decisions affecting your core career, money remains an effective judge of value. "If

When you study the type of careers that make others remark, "That's the type of job I want," this trait almost always plays a central role. Once you understand this value of control, it changes the way you evaluate opportunities, leading you to consider a position's potential autonomy as being as important as its offered salary or the institution's reputation.

For each such tool, go through the key activities you identified and ask whether the use of the tool has a substantially positive impact, a substantially negative impact, or little impact on your regular and successful participation in the activity. Now comes the important decision: Keep using this tool only if you concluded that it has substantial positive impacts and that these outweigh the negative impacts.

the problem with lag measures is that they come too late to change your behavior:

After thirty days of this self-imposed network isolation, ask yourself the following two questions about each of the services you temporarily quit: Would the last thirty days have been notably better if I had been able to use this service? Did people care that I wasn't using this service?

balance this profit against the costs measured in terms of "your life." How much of your time and attention, he would ask, must be

they start with the things they value most, then work backward to ask whether a given new technology performs more harm than good with respect to these values.

These changes crept up on us and happened fast, before we had a chance to step back and ask what we really wanted out of the rapid advances of the past decade

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.